King City was the biggest speed trap in CA.
If you couldn’t pay the ticket on the spot, you could easily be arrested.
I bet what they did was arrest speeders, impound the car then sell the car when impound fee got too big for owners.
I got caught in a King City speed trap many years ago. They were pulling people over and writing tickets 25 people at a time. It was an assembly line. Very efficient. The SS would have been proud.
I think a class action lawsuit is in order. Pay back all the money collected by the court plus interest. Bankrupt King City. Remember the citizens of that town voted for the City Officers. Citizens of the town are culpable for using the P.D. and courts to fund the City.
This is not the only town doing this. Once the premise of fines for safety is accepted corruption will follow. It always does. The traffic safety scheme needs to be dismantled. That will take courage. More courage than risk transferring Americans or Freepers possess.